Chapter 751 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 18

“Really? Then I can rest easy! Thank you for letting me see this letter…” A look of relief spread across the original owner’s face.

In the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World where no Ghosts existed, Mo Lan’s Soul Summoning consumed far more energy than usual. Summoning the original owner’s soul back for this brief moment was already her limit.

As the Soul Summoning faded, the original owner seemed to sense what was happening. “Goodbye!”

She departed, taking with her the letter her parents had left for her.

The moment the original owner’s soul vanished, Mo Lan immediately summoned the Book of Cards and began removing items from the mirror one by one to use as card-crafting materials. She didn’t stop until the Book of Cards could produce corresponding cards for each item.

After filling in the gaps left by the materials she’d used with card-crafted replicas, everything inside the mirror was restored to its original state.

Mo Lan then took out a Spatial Card, temporarily transferred everything from inside the mirror into it, and fed the large mirror itself to the Book of Cards as material.

She had no intention of crafting an identical mirror to hang here.

She was accustomed to carrying everything on her person. The security concerns the original owner’s parents had worried about simply didn’t apply to her.

A Spatial Card stored inside the Book of Cards—no one would ever find it.

After organizing all the cultivation resources the original owner’s parents had left behind, Mo Lan took out a seven-star mind jade and extended her psychic power into it.

A moment later, she sighed in disappointment.

Sure enough, her guess had been correct.

Even a seven-star mind jade had no effect on her psychic power.

Mo Lan then retrieved three jin of jade marrow grass, one jin of moonlight dew water, half a jin of angelica root, one hundred grams of gray rock honey, and five leaves of silver leaf mint.

Following the method described in 《Twelve Basic Body-Tempering Decoctions》, she began preparing the jade marrow decoction.

The jade marrow decoction was the last of the twelve basic body-tempering decoctions. It had excellent tempering effects but also placed the highest demands on the body—one needed to have fully absorbed and digested the effects of the previous eleven decoctions before being able to withstand it.

Among the body-tempering materials the original owner’s parents had left behind, none of these ingredients were lacking.

Drawing on her years of potion-brewing experience, Mo Lan prepared the jade marrow decoction without much effort. She dissolved it in the medicinal pool of the cultivation chamber, then undressed and soaked herself in it.

Before long, she climbed back out.

Just like the scarlet refining decoction, the jade marrow decoction had barely any effect on her either.

Mo Lan wasn’t discouraged. From among the books the original owner’s parents had left behind, she found a copy of 《Advanced Body-Tempering Decoction Formulas》.

The original owner’s parents had left sticky notes near the higher-star medicinal materials indicating which body-tempering decoctions they were meant for, and all of them referenced this book.

Following the formulas inside, Mo Lan prepared several more body-tempering decoctions that were stronger than the jade marrow decoction.

Among them, the highest-grade was the flowing cloud tendon-softening decoction, usable even by Mirror Explorers who had tempered their bodies all the way to six stars.

Unfortunately, even after soaking in the flowing cloud tendon-softening decoction, Mo Lan felt none of the pain described in the book—that sensation of the medicine penetrating into muscle and bone. The decoction still had no effect on her.

The original owner’s parents had collected several formulas for even more advanced body-tempering decoctions, including seven-star and eight-star ones, but sadly, they didn’t have the corresponding ingredients.

At this point, Mo Lan had essentially lost interest in using this world’s mind jade cultivation and decoction body-tempering methods to increase her own strength. Perhaps nine-star mind jade and nine-star body-tempering decoctions might have some slight effect on her psychic power and physical body.

But the significance would be minimal. In terms of cost-effectiveness, she’d be better off meditating on her own and pairing good food and drink with the Dietary Fortification Card.

Moreover, Mo Lan had discovered today at school after eating mirror beast meat that this type of meat was far more energy-rich. Combined with the Dietary Fortification Card, it provided a much greater boost to her physical body than ordinary food!

Collecting edible magical materials from this world would suit her far better than following this world’s body-tempering methods.

With this in mind, Mo Lan was left with only two paths if she wanted to quickly attain strength rivaling the top powerhouses of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins and bolster her own safety.

The first was to raise her Witch Magic level.

Although her mana tier was still some distance from the upper limit of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World, from what she could tell so far, her mana tier already far surpassed that of a Mirror Lord among the eighteen great mirror domains of the Eastern China Alliance. If her magic level could keep pace, she shouldn’t have anything to worry about in the Deer Cry Mirror.

The second was to extract magical skills from beast cores, using this world’s methods to expand the ways she could wield her psychic power in combat—turning her psychic power into a viable weapon against enemies.

From what she could tell, the psychic power that Earth’s planetary memory had enhanced for her far exceeded the sixth-tier level. She simply lacked the methods to apply it in battle.

The Valen mage method of using psychic power to construct spell structures and leverage magical energy in the environment—Mo Lan had mastered that quite well.

Unfortunately, she had only managed to obtain Peak level and below magic back then. Afterward, Mo Lan had wanted to research further but couldn’t spare much time, and it wasn’t something that could be accomplished overnight.

Now, the casting methods of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins’ Mirror Explorers offered her a second option.

The original owner’s parents had left behind some beast cores that were very suitable for skill extraction.

The highest-grade ones were a full six stars!

Mo Lan had seen the method for extracting skills from beast cores in the textbooks distributed by the school, though it only covered one-star extraction.

According to the textbook, skill extraction placed an enormous burden on one’s psychic power. One absolutely had to ensure their psychic power level met the requirements before attempting it.

Not only was perfect extraction extremely difficult, there was also a certain failure rate.

If the extraction wasn’t perfect, the skill’s effectiveness would simply be somewhat diminished. But if it failed entirely, the violent energy within the beast core would impact one’s psychic power, and in severe cases, could damage the mental sea.

The best approach was to personally hunt mirror beasts.

Beast cores obtained from personally hunted mirror beasts had a higher success rate for skill extraction, and a greater chance of achieving perfect extraction.

Whether it was the entrance exams for Eastern China Academy, applications to the more prestigious Mirror Ruins University, or job hunting after graduation, perfectly extracted skills were a major advantage.

That was precisely why Instructor Yan Shuang had told them in advance that she would personally lead them on a field practice outside the school in three months—she wanted them to raise their psychic power to an adequate level within that time before taking them to hunt mirror beasts.

Three months was a wait Mo Lan could afford.

She planned to wait until after the field practice ended before deciding whether to extract skills from the beast cores the original owner’s parents had left behind.

If personally hunting the beasts truly was a critical factor, then Mo Lan wouldn’t use those cores.

These skills were meant to strengthen herself, so naturally, the more powerful they were, the better!

After all, skills that were extracted and replicated into the mental sea would permanently occupy a portion of one’s psychic power. If one wished to discard them, that portion of psychic power would be lost forever and would have to be cultivated anew.